moray

• maray, muray (archaic)

From Portuguese moreia, from Latin murēna (“sea eel, lamprey”), from Ancient Greek σμύραινα (smúraina), from σμύρος (smúros, “sea eel”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɒ.ɹeɪ/, /məˈɹeɪ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɹ.eɪ/
• (New York City, Philadelphia) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹ.eɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɒɹeɪ, -eɪ

moray (plural morays)

1. Any of the large cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae.

• moray eel

• Amory, Mayor, Raymo, mayor